[North West England Regional Discussion 23rd January 2013, 12z onwards]

Snowing here now in West Cumbria and starting to lay on roads already. Wind picking up as well.

[North West England Regional Discussion 21st January 2013, 06z onwards]

I don't go in for the Met Office bashing most of the time but I have to agree here. The TV forecasts today, not showing the snow in the 'nowcast' bit even when it was actually falling, and still not forecasting it, showing it staying comfortably on the eastern side of the pennines hours after radars had shown it moving to the west has been desperately poor. They've got so wound up with the threat of blizzards to the east nobody bothered to check where it was actually going. Its fair enough to forecast it wrong initially, but to continue issuing false forcasts looks silly.

[North West England Regional Discussion 21st January 2013, 06z onwards]

Awful forecasting by the Met Office . No warnings on tv last night , dispite the fact you could see it tracking towards us on the radar. This morning and just now on BBC still shows west cumbria dry even though its been snowing since around 4am.

[Winter Model Discussion - 12/01/13 06z Onwards]

METO Sunday

West Lancashire snowdome enabled and up and running.....

Ian

Could do with it shifting 5 miles west!!!